I recall El hilo del Pueblo being the absolute hardest theme that, at week 8, we were asked to work with. i recall too, that at this time, i was still struggling to find viable approaches to this class as themes left off from the realm of the personal and increasingly invoked themes specific to Mexico.
I can read, and I can write in an academically-inspired tone about something, but—this class seems to ask us to veer away from being particularly academic in our approaches, and I felt no entry point—indeed doubted my very right to enter—personally into the realm of the pueblos. Today’s drawing, then, is a product of this impasse. in fact, the very fact that I had decided to draw rather than paint, and to stay away from colour, is rather telling in this regard. In trying to visualise and relate to cultural phenomena, my starting point tends to be (visuals of) the location; so I looked up pueblos online, and it is from this imagery that this drawing results.
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